Erykah Badu‘s powerful and resourceful voice lends itself to the Roberta Flack classic, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” as part of a collaboration with The Flaming Lips entitl...
The Very Best‘s new album MTMTMK will be out on 17 July. This infectious slice of afro beat (originally performed by just M.I.A. and Santigold) entitled “Get It Up” has gotten a ter...
Laetitia Sadier, late of Stereolab and Monade, is delivering what is called her “first true solo album” entitled Silencio, due July 24th from Drag City. If this song, “Find Me The P...
Brooklyn duo The Mast have released a new remix EP for their latest single entitled UpUpUp as a “pay what you will”-priced download via their Bandcamp page. Calling themselves “post...
Brand new from Top 40 sensation Ellie Goulding comes a stirring Xaphoon Jones-produced cover of The Weeknd‘s “High For This”. Yep. (via Neon Gold Records)
Sometimes it’s the simplest of remixes that can turn a party inside out, and this one doesn’t try to be anything it’s not. It’s not really as if Grand Am did something that fa...
On first listen, if a song makes you get that scrunched up – something stinks – squinty eyes – head shakin face… and its uncontrollable, you might have a banger on your hands....
Chromatics have released yet another video today from their ambitious and widely-acclaimed album Kill For Love. “These Streets Will Never Look The Same” was directed by Alberto Rossini, a...
Finally!! A Foster The People remix!! We have been waiting soooo incredibly long for one of these to come along, haven’t you? Feel free to call this what you want, but it’s obviously a re...
Have there been very many songs as infectious as Chromeo‘s now-classic “Tenderoni”? Reimagining Dave 1 and P-Thugg inna Big Boom stylee is one of BK’s finest up-and-coming rem...
A brand new instrumental track from SBTRKT appeared today, entitled “gamelena”. A note from the super producer states, “back in the studio. working towards eps/ album/ etc…. s...
Having been barricaded in a library for the last week with headphones glued on my head I have noticed a few tracks which rarely fail to cut through the gloomy murk of frazzled concentration. IntotheN...
LA-via-Detroit hip hop/producer/beatmaker DJ House Shoes, aka “One Who Does Not Fuck Around”, is back to represent. Shoes comes at us today with a new track from his EP The Time featuring...
The video to accompany the by-all-accounts mega-popular song from Brookyln’s MS MR has arrived.
New. Santigold. Diplo. Ok. Go.
The Junkyard Band was Def Jam’s only go-go signing that I personally know about (there might have been others, but I have too much going on today to properly sit down and research it). The 12...
At one time in my life, Donna Summer was my everything. She was my first major musical crush as a kid. She was the first singer whose presence, persona and catalog of music reached through the speake...
I have been wondering a lot lately: What was my iTunes like before I knew about Main Attrakionz? I mean… I was pretty late in the game, when I found out about Oakland’s self-proclaimed ...
One of the best aspects of 2011′s breakout hip-hop group, G-Side, is their live performance. I have been lucky enough to see them twice, once in Memphis at the Hi-Tone Café and once at Glasslan...
It’s been a horrible month for musical passings. Rest in Peace, Chuck Brown and thank you for your endless contributions to funk, hip-hop and the go-go movement. See Also :: Chuck Brown obituar...
Not just one of the funniest guys out there but one of the most talented vocally, Reggie Watts‘ lifelong journey through comedy and music has his star on the rise with no sign of hitting its ap...
With less and less frequency since the days of Public Enemy, Ice Cube and Poor Righteous Teachers has conscious, enlightened hip-hop crossed the line from encouraging self-awareness to developing a c...
That self-proclaimed “bad bitch from uptown” Azealia Banks is back up in the cut with a new track from her soon-to-be-released mixtape. With help-out on the production side from a couple ...
Yeah Okay, You’re Right: So it’s less than a month away now, and we’ve not said a word about it (yo, things got hectic around here!), but we’re still very excited for the R...
Nearly a year ago, our friend The Recommender notified us of an up-and-coming band from Brooklyn called MS MR. Immediately, this unknown band impressed us as much as it did them. With vocal acrobatic...
You know when you are just in a funk? Maybe you’re tired and hung over after a long weekend, feeling down and introspective, or just being straight up lazy. Just in one of those moods tha...
Let’s get this out of the way: some of y’all really need to work on your PR game. You’re sending me tracks that slack and lack attack on the playback, but you’ve got this brag...
Casiokids are one of several Scandinavian bands you can rely on for a synth drenched few minutes of hooks and beats usually laid over a heavier-than-pop skeleton. They are also one of several bands o...
Future Unlimited recently swapped remixes with one of Los Angeles’ heroes of modernwave, The New Division. The New Division’s remix of Future Unlimited’s “Golden” came o...
Everyone is entitled to a guilty pleasure, right? I have no guiltier one than Toronto’s Dragonette & I really, really like their particularly bright, sugary electropop. So, fine — le...
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